NARRAGANSETT HISTORY (revised 7.15.97) Location Narragansett Bay and western Rhode Island Population Probably more than 10, 000 in 1610, but by 1674 this had dropped to 5, 000. The Narragansett lost almost 20 of their population in a single battle with the English in December of 1675. Massacre and starvation soon killed most of the others. By 1682 less than 500 Narragansett remained. They were ...

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Lois Scozzari, The Significance of Wampum to Seventeenth Century Indians in New England ...

Narragansett Bay: A Friend's Perspective Indians and Colonists Primitive man is believed to have arrived in Narragansett basin in the late Pleistocene, about 6500 B.C. From then until the English colonists came, fishing and hunting and local water transportation in dugout canoes were the primary uses. When Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts colony for dissenting opinions and ...